• From “Hudibras,” Part I.
      HIS puissant sword unto his side
    Near his undaunted heart was tied,
    With basket hilt that would hold broth,
    And serve for fight and dinner both.
    In it he melted lead for bullets
    To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets,
    To whom he bore so fell a grutch
    He ne’er gave quarter to any such.
    The...